A reading list: populism, euroscepticism & foreign policy attitudes
Here is the new reading list on populist, eurosceptic and foreign policy attitudes for my MA seminar
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What we are reading: Causal Effects on Mainstream Parties’ Positions
Does radical right success lead to mainstream re-positioning? Radical right parties have existed for decades now, but most of them are still seen as challengers, because they aim to disrupt the (liberal democratic) consensus in their respective societies. Existing parties can react by digging their heels in, or by accommodation. As I have argued elsewhere,…
What we are reading: Do PRR Parties Improve Representation?
Something good in everything? Could radical right-wing populism be a (whispers) good thing? Of course it all depends on what we mean by “good”. Backlund and Jungar have a modest proposal: they suggest that radical right success could improve the representation of policy preferences in parliament. Using data from both expert and voter surveys in…
What we are reading: Legislative Strength, Government Participation & Protest Voting
The debate about alleged protest vote for the radical right is really, really stale. A new paper promises to bring some much-needed fresh air. My students were not really convinced. Are they just picky?
What we are reading: Gender and the Radical Right Vote
Why are women (mostly) immune to the radical right? It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of a good brain is rarely in want of a male-dominated, chauvinist, sexist radical right party. Or something along these lines. Austen aside, for most radical right parties in (Western) Europe, the male-to-female ratio in their…
What we are reading: Radical Right voters’ motives in Eastern and Western Europe
Is anti-immigration sentiment behind the radical right vote in all of Europe? It’s been a mere three decades since 1990, or as we old-timers are prone to say, a generation. But for some (cough) Europeanists, the CEE countries are still either terra incognita or just an extension of their western counterparts. While much of the…
What we are reading: Corruption performance voting
What we are reading: Corruption performance voting Do voters punish government parties for high levels of corruption? Performance voting is a generalisation of economic voting: the idea that voters governments punish/reward for good/bad, well, performance. Low levels of systemic corruption are both an aspect and a precondition for a polity’s performance, so studying how voters’…
What we are reading: Class Voting in a Tripolar Space
The reading class exercise goes on. Inevitably, the class on the consequences of the Radical Right’s rise kicks off with some recent work on the underlying causes. What is the link between social class and radical right voting in Western Europe? The idea that the radical right forms a new party family, whose rise is…
What we are reading: Comparative survey data, random effects and some best practice tips
Working with repeated comparative survey data – almost a howto There is now a bonanza of studies that rely on surveys which are replicated across countries and time, often with fairly short intervals, with the ESS arguably one of the most prominent examples (but also see the “barometer” studies in various regions). Multi-level analysis is…
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Traditionally, Germany’s long, gloomy, depressing and generally horrible winter semester ends mid-February. It is followed by a break that slips past us in the blink of an eye and then a long, sweaty, generally drawn-out but gloriously sunny summer term that ends mid-July. And this is where we are now (the beginning, not the end).…